Denmark's prime minister has apologised to a generation of indigenous Greenlanders who were forcibly prescribed birth control.

The apology by Mette Frederiksen in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, hopes to close a traumatic chapter in Greenland's history.

At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent.

She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town of Maniitsoq terminated her pregnancy, they fitted her with an intra-uterine contraceptive device, commonly known as an IUD, or coil.

Now 52 and living in Denmark, Ms Petersen recalled being told she had been fitted with the device before leaving the hospital.

"Because of my age, I didn't know what to do," she said tearfully.

" I kept it inside me and never talked abou

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